sidetrack
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He turned down assisting a professor with data analysis for a book, for instance, because it would have required substantial changes to his class schedule that would sidetrack his early graduation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
When Devi tries to sidetrack Dr. Ryan, she pivots the conversation.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2023
Not wanting to sidetrack his team, the president resumed playing cards until shortly before 3:30 p.m., when Panetta announced that the helicopters were nearing the compound.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
Georgieva told a conference in Washington that policymakers should adopt targeted measures to alleviate rising food and fuel prices, while avoiding steps that could fuel inflation or sidetrack monetary policy.
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2022
I led my army northward, rarely having to sidetrack; the emperor himself sent the enemies I was hunting chasing after me.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
He wants them amped up for when he faces jeopardy in criminal trials or if something sidetracks his nomination.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2023
"I don't think upward movement in interest rates alone is going to be the catalyst that sidetracks the M&A market," said Morgan Stanley's Miles.
From Reuters ● Dec. 20, 2021
It sidetracks us from the things that actually matter, that really genuinely mattered to me.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2021
The silver lining in loss of funding may be that Kansas officials finally engage in a remedy - even if it sidetracks the quest for a short, sweet legislative session.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 29, 2015
Their try-outs had to be made for the most part on sidetracks and freight switches, some miles outside Hendrickton, where the invention would not be in the way of regular traffic.
From Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
Don’t get sidetracked by products that you don’t fully understand.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
The two started an exchange about their respective career paths, but Danielle got sidetracked and left Drew hanging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
The U.S. economy got sidetracked in February by tariff-related price increases, sluggish sales and the previous month’s Winter Storm Fern, but top executives were also more optimistic that business will improve later in the year.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
Ellis says this narrative plays out in the film - Folarin works so much that he becomes "neglectful and sidetracked".
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
She thought about following them but didn’t want to get sidetracked.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Attention then lurched to another hot-button environmental issue — the world’s largest dam removal on the Elwha River — further sidetracking efforts to extend wilderness areas.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
A dozen ways of diverting, sidetracking, or derailing the conversation came to mind, yet somehow Nadine heard herself confessing to these people that Mercury’s funds were limited.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2020
“People did it for me,” he says before sidetracking into bafflement over what GIF means.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2020
Chamber of Commerce international economics head Myron Brilliant — that the two sides have set up a separate working group to help avoid sidetracking the rest of the discussion.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2013
We called them tenderfeet, that day when Mr. Blake honored our county seat by sidetracking his palatial car.
From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by George Brehm
